The Fact That Amazon Is Uncrashable Is the Reason It Hosted Wikileaks in the First Place

Anonymous has been trying to take down Amazon.com with a DDoS all day for refusing to continue to host space for Wikileaks. This would be quite a blow if it could be done, as it would shut off the flow of all that sweet Christmas shopping money. But because it is prepared for ridiculous amounts of traffic over the holidays, overloading it's servers is next to impossible.

In fact, the reason Wikileaks was being hosted by Amazon in the first place is that it has so much extra server space to handle the extra traffic that rents a lot of it out to other websites.

We'll See How they Like Him When He Gets Some of Russia's Secrets.

Russia wants Julian Assange to get the Nobel Peace Prize. Normally a guy going around giving away everybody's secrets would not attract the affections of Russia, but

"Russia's reflexively suspicious leadership appears to have come round to WikiLeaks, having decided that the ongoing torrent of disclosures are ultimately far more damaging and disastrous to America's long-term geopolitical interests than they are to Russia's."

That may all change, of course, once he gets proof of Putin's involvement in the poisoning of Yukashchenko, or Litvinenko.